Sugar, Sugar was a pop song by The Archies that I heard the other day and realised that I had not heard it since the 1960s.
The song was one of those strange songs that you never thought would be a hit since it was not recorded by the proper pop group. Like the Monkees, the Archies were a manufactured pop group and the track was produced, in fact, by unknown musicians in the studio. The song was written in 1969 and recorded in the same year and, as is often the case with unusual records, it caught the public imagination and was released all over the world
This is the ‘Hot town, summer in the city, Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty’ song that is a classic now and which still seems to crop up on the radio once or twice a month in the summer.
One of the most exciting songs of the 1960s, the Beatles with ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. It’s a simple song but a good one and one that sounds much better performed live.
One of the most recognisable and remembered songs of the 1960s that still sends Goosebumps up my spine when I hear (or play) those opening notes.
A great song from 1965 written by the famous and prolific American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell and recorded by ‘The Toys’ in 1965.
Yes, I know this was recorded by the Beatles and we’ll come to their version later, but this is about the original recording and, in fact, a very important one for this was the very first Motown hit. That is it was the first Motown song to reach number one in the Billboard charts, which it did in 1961.
‘Love Potion No. 9′ is one of the most famous songs of the 1960s and it was a personal favourite of mine in those far off days.